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Culture frames the possibilities for thought and action so that certain morally relevant facts are eclipsed and others distorted. This results in shared practices that are unjust and oppressive. However, culture is not a rigid frame, but is a set of tools made ready for use in certain ways; not everyone uses the tools in the same way or finds them fitting for the jobs they need done. So even in cases where most participate in oppressive practices unknowingly, there…

Eliot Sober argues that the scientific method includes many non-trivial principles of reasoning that apply across vastly different subject matters. Nancy Cartwright notes that rigorous methods tend to be very restrictive in what they can do, maintaining that the real work in science is done by mixing methods that are highly specific to a given subject matter. Her basic worry is that privileging particular methods restricts the scope of what science can find out and sets unacceptable limits on the…

Sandy Goldberg is author of Relying on Others (OUP), Assertion: The Philosophical Significance of Assertive Speech (OUP), and the forthcoming To the Best of Our Knowledge (OUP), as well as the editor of many collections. From 12-2 he'll do a workshop on the Ethics of Address. Then from 3-5 he'll do a workshop on Social Epistemic Normativity. Abstracts: Your Attention Please! There are various ways through which we try to capture another person's attention. One of these ways – a particularly…

ABSTRACT: According to the cognitivist account of practical rationality, the means-end coherence norm governing intention may be explained in terms of the closure norm governing belief. One longstanding objection to the cognitivist account, due to Michael Bratman, is that there are cases in which an agent satisfies the closure norm governing the belief that they will perform a certain action and yet fail to satisfy the means-end coherence norm governing their intention to perform that very action. This paper advances…

We will have lectures that range from the philosophy of histories, 'representation narrative,' and queering literature! This workshop is intended to help bridge gaps in argumentative and academic writing for ALL majors! Please share with your friends and student orgs! Reserve a seat at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfnTV7vMrDb3TBlzDOFEi1TJS72zXxAYt6_egMMOPOCG2OV1Q/viewform SCHEDULE: 1pm-2pm: Introduction to Historical Philosophies (Professor Adam Harmer) 2pm-3pm: Introduction to Queer Theory and Queer Elements in Literature (Justin Domecillo) 3pm-4pm: Conference Papers! What they Are, Why they Matter. (Grad student, Becca Harris) 4pm-5pm:…

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Carl Cranor has been selected to receive the Phi Beta Kappa Romanell Professorship for 2014-15. He thus joins a group of distinguished philosophers who received it earlier including Penelope Maddy, Stanley Cavell, Susan Wolf, Kendal Walton, and Harry Frankfurt. Join us in congratulating Professor Carl Cranor!

Professor Larry Wright joined UCR in 1970. He was the longest reigning faculty in the UCR philosophy department in his tenure. As Larry joins our other prominent philosophy faculty of Emeritus status, he will continue to service the University as a Professor of Graduate Division from July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2018. On behalf […]